Karl Marx argued that when we care more about the things we buy than the labor necessary to create these things,we______.
A)fetishize commodities
B)alienate workers
C)engage in dialectical materialism
D)weaken the capitalist system

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Marx believed that capitalism creates a culture in which people become obsessed with the things they own and consume, to the point where they fetishize commodities - that is, they imbue objects with a mystical, almost magical power. In doing so, they obscure the fact that these things are the products of labor, and that the laborers who produce them often suffer from exploitation and alienation under capitalism.

Karl Marx Argued That When We Care More About the Things